The Rise of the Terminally Online: Digital Subjectivity and Simulation of the Social

“Algorithmic Contaminations” by derekGavey is licensed under CC BY 2.0

“Americans, rich or poor, now live in a culture entirely perceived through simulacra-media images and illusions. We live inside a self-referential media hologram of a nation that has not existed for quite some time now. Our national reality is held together by images, the originals of which have been lost or never existed. The well-off with their…